Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Single P4, many IDE PCI cards == trouble?? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:13:08 -0400 |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:00:58 +0800, Nick Urbanik said:
> what motherboard, IDE cards you are using. I used to imagine that a > terabyte of RAID storage on one P4 machine with ordinary cheap IDE cards > with software RAID would be feasible. I believe it is not (although I > cannot afford to play musical motherboards). ... > I am giving up now, and have shelled out big dollars for a 3ware 7506-8, > which I will install early next week once I've figured out how to back up > and restore 203GB without shelling out even more money.
Exactly. The *real* reason why a terabyte of RAID is expensive - if it's important enough to RAID, it's important enough to back up (with the possible exception of RAID striping for performance on a multi-hundred-gig scratch space).
/Valdis (who once got to clean up 600M of mess after a busticated RAID controller dropped its cache to the right blocks on the wrong disks :) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |